Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward of Wales last week left London with high-heralded "secrecy" to visit the poor of his father's Kingdom. Previous royal visits to Britain's blighted areas have been enthusiastically praised by the Press on the theory that something important might come of them. Nothing did. Last week's excursion was hailed more temperately. H. R. H. gazed at wretched mining villages in the Newcastle region, deserted shipyards along the Tyne. He had the following thoughts to express at an unemployment centre in South Shields...
...less for those who have devoted their lives to art than it does for the pushcart merchant. ... If they give us a chance we will put on a show that will be not only an attraction to New Yorkers but a new drawing card for the thousands who visit the city daily. . . . The show would contain some really fine things, not like the Independents' Exhibition...
...student works on problems of design, in such subjects as thoroughfare systems, transit systems and railroads. The final half-year in design is devoted to the preparation of an ideal city, combining qualities studied in the school and located on a piece of ground which the student can visit...
...Grand Hotel" and "Hotel Universe." The public has found both types good, with the result that Tiffany has laid the setting of the activities of a gang of smooth, hard criminals in black fedoras, amid the cosmopolitan finery of "Hotel Continental." And the Playgoer has found good after a visit to the University theatre...
Baltimore last week was cleaning up the Lyric Theatre preparatory to the Metropolitan's annual spring visit. Clevelanders were trying to earn tickets in an Ask-Me-About-Opera contest sponsored by the Plain Dealer. Rochester socialites were getting out their top-hats, arranging dinner parties for the one night (April 25) when the Metropolitan would come there with pretty Lily Pons, its leading attraction...